Herod the Great rebuilt the Temple of Solomon. It was his son also called Herod that Jesus refused to speak to on Good Friday morning causing Herod to have him beaten with rods and turned over to the Romans. Pontius Pilate then held his own brief and crowd controlled trial, ordered a near death Roman flogging of Jesus, and had Jesus crucified outside of the walls, with all of this done before 9:00 AM.

It is interesting that the Brits suddenly want to glamorize Rome's Bedouin puppet murderer as the best ruler possible in Jerusalem in place of David's tribe of Judah. Talk about timing.

Not to speak of Thucydides (History of the Peloponnesian War — which Athens, whose side he told, thoroughly lost — though its civilization was not extinguished, as sometimes happens when wars are lost). Thucydides, by the way, is one of the principal founding fathers of history as a subject we can read about (the other being Herodotus).

Ms Maayah says Israeli authorities did not consult her department about the exhibition even though it involves joint cultural heritage. "Actually we only heard about it from the media," she says.

The very voice of frustrated corruption, pissed at being cut out of the baksheesh.

You mean to tell me King Herrod wasn't a flabby, overindulgent bisexual in white shorts with a bad singing voice?

Wow, that has to be the worst performance of the King Herod piece I've ever heard. How the hell did they get from the original cast recording to this shit?

BTW, that's the wrong Herod, the one in the song is the tetrarch Herod Antipas, I think he was a son of the great king, who obviously was long dead by the time of the crucifixion, or else how would the family of Joseph ever have returned to Palestine?